OT: FooBar (was Bad Factor)

[Dave LeYanna]

Close...

Situation Normal All Fouled Up

djl

At 09:10 PM 1/31/03 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Now, if he would have said "foobar"
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> > >another programmers term whose meaning i have been looking
> > >for for years. Can you enlighten me?
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> > Simply a universal variable used to represent a generic
> > contextual item...
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>When I was a student (a good few years ago) I was told the term originated
>from the military, just as we us 'Snafu' now.
>Basically, it’s a distorted version of 'F***ed Up Beyound All Recognition' -
>or am I just being naïve ?
>
>Regards
>
>Gary Rathbone
>
>
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